It's looking more and more like a whole bunch of Asian countries just got lucky. Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam have all currently got uncontrolled community spr

It's looking more and more like a whole bunch of Asian countries just got lucky. Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam have all currently got uncontrolled community spread again (possibly China too), and whilst the Taiwan outbreak could maybe be blamed on them getting sloppy Singapore has been aggressively enforcing mask wearing the whole time. There was already good reason to suspect this was the case over a year ago too. The early outbreaks mostly seemed to be a gradient emanating outwards from Italy, with genetic testing suggesting that even the US had done reasonably well at halting spread from China and its big outbreaks came from Europe; Asia is obviously a long way from Italy and it was suspicious that a bunch of countries that in reality had widely varying policies on things like masks, testing, etc showed such similar results. Including countries like Australia and New Zealand that were more or less western in terms of culture but were geographically close to the rest.